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Topic	B8 Movie Club Topic 2 - Into the Little Shop of Fargo Willy's Machete Wonderland
Seginustemple 03/24/21 7:23:13 AM #289:	kateee posted... did this apply for Murder by Death? I found it here https://archive.org/details/MurderByDeath but damn I really should have gone through it again before nominating Murder By Death Whiff, sorry guys. I'm disappointed in myself. You ever revisit a movie and it's way worse than you remembered? And in the process of revisiting it you inflict it on other people? In my head this was a better version of Clue with a great cast and a hilarious Peter Falk performance. It is not better than Clue. I do still think Peter Falk is a gem (and he's not in it enough!), the rest of the cast is great on paper and the concept of spoofing classic detectives is right up my alley but damn most of the jokes just aren't funny. Many are just annoying and dumb. The blind gags go on way too long and it's all Guinness gets to do until the end. Peter Sellers doing the Charlie Chan thing is actually completely obnoxious and gets way too much screentime - in theory this could work like RDJ in Tropic Thunder but there just isn't anywhere near that level of nuance to the caricature here. Like...it almost becomes more offensive than Charlie Chan simply by being unfunny.The Poirot guy only gets one good joke, when he correctly remembers his character is supposed to be Belgian and not French. The Charleston and Mrs. Marple characters are just kinda there (the old nurse is pretty funny I guess). Really the best thing about this is Peter Falk's ridiculous Bogart impression bouncing off Eileen Brennan's straight man performance, but the movie spends like 40 minutes screwing around with Sellers's awful accent before it even gets to them and it's just painful. I guess I remembered them being in it more. I do like the setting and I think the movie could have leaned a little more into the madman fun-house concept it flirts with. Trap doors, revolving bookcases, animated suits of armor, why not. Scooby-Doo shit is what I'm here for. I mean you have Oscar winning actor Alec Guinness playing a blind butler in a mystery spoof, you'd think there's no way you can't get a good revolving bookcase gag out of that, right? That's just like a law of physical comedy. But that's this movie. It's got Oscar winning actor Alec Guinness playing a blind butler and it doesn't deliver a good revolving bookcase gag. 4/10 what was I thinking --- You bow to no one, azuarc <cite>Seginustemple posted [p:952053410] in B8 Movie C... [t:79291002]...</cite> <quote>kateee posted...</cite> <quote>did this apply for Murder by Death?</quote> I found it here https://archive.org/details/MurderByDeath but damn I really should have gone through it again before nominating Murder By Death Whiff, sorry guys. I'm disappointed in myself. You ever revisit a movie and it's way worse than you remembered? And in the process of revisiting it you inflict it on other people? In my head this was a better version of Clue with a great cast and a hilarious Peter Falk performance. It is not better than Clue. I do still think Peter Falk is a gem (and he's not in it enough!), the rest of the cast is great on paper and the concept of spoofing classic detectives is right up my alley but damn most of the jokes just aren't funny. Many are just annoying and dumb. The blind gags go on way too long and it's all Guinness gets to do until the end. Peter Sellers doing the Charlie Chan thing is actually completely obnoxious and gets way too much screentime - in theory this could work like RDJ in Tropic Thunder but there just isn't anywhere near that level of nuance to the caricature here. Like...it almost becomes more offensive than Charlie Chan simply by being unfunny.The Poirot guy only gets one good joke, when he correctly remembers his character is supposed to be Belgian and not French. The Charleston and Mrs. Marple characters are just kinda there (the old nurse is pretty funny I guess). Really the best thing about this is Peter Falk's ridiculous Bogart impression bouncing off Eileen Brennan's straight man performance, but the movie spends like 40 minutes screwing around with Sellers's awful accent before it even gets to them and it's just painful. I guess I remembered them being in it more. I do like the setting and I think the movie could have leaned a little more into the madman fun-house concept it flirts with. Trap doors, revolving bookcases, animated suits of armor, why not. Scooby-Doo shit is what I'm here for. I mean you have Oscar winning actor Alec Guinness playing a blind butler in a mystery spoof, you'd think there's no way you can't get a good revolving bookcase gag out of that, right? That's just like a law of physical comedy. But that's this movie. It's got Oscar winning actor Alec Guinness playing a blind butler and it doesn't deliver a good revolving bookcase gag. 4/10 what was I thinking --- You bow to no one, azuarc</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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